Creep along the northern Jordan Valley section of the Dead Sea Fault

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2494-2501

  Hamiel, Yariv ^a   Piatibratova, Oksana ^a   Mizrahi, Yaakov ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

creep; Dead Sea Fault; deformation; geodesy

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LANDFORMS; LOCKS (FASTENERS);

CREEP RATES; DEAD SEA; DEAD SEA FAULTS; GPS VELOCITIES; INTERSEISMIC DEFORMATIONS; JORDAN VALLEY; NEAR FAULT; SLIP RATES;

CREEP;

CREEP; DATA ACQUISITION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPTH; FAULTING; FRACTURE; GEODESY; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; SLIP RATE;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; JORDAN VALLEY; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 84977962660     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL067913     Document Type: Article

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